Is not at all what it seems at first glance:
“Perfect timing for the regime. Federal provocateurs, sociopaths and idiots with a John Brown complex are writing checks that they expect the rest of us to cash in our blood,”
‘…And yet, as wrong-headed and suspect as are the actions and the motives of the few people who are currently holed up in the Fish and Wildlife Service office (and they are far fewer than is claimed), the rest of us are still prisoners of our own enunciated principles. Bundy and the others (including several people whom are widely suspected of being federal provocateurs) have indeed written a check that they expect the rest of us to cash in our own blood in a ghastly civil war. Yet we cannot allow the federal government to take advantage of this perfect propaganda opportunity that they have apparently spent such effort contriving and use deadly force on the occupiers without response. As at the time of the Freemen standoff, we must get across the message to the Feds that if they do so, there will be a national response in those local areas of operations where we are strongest, politically and militarily. Frankly, this is a plea for any adults in the room in DC to intervene and use caution before this blows up in all of our faces.’
UPDATE:
NZ Herald headline:
‘Why aren’t these men called terrorists?’
‘They’re armed, they’ve taken over a government building and are refusing to budge until they get what they want. They are also white and Christian.
…..The sometimes-coded but increasingly overt ways that some Americans are presumed guilty and violence-prone while others are assumed to be principled and peaceable unless and until provoked – even when actually armed – is remarkable.’
Janell Ross. Washington Post
I won’t even comment on this piece of sly, disgusting distortion and propaganda. Perhaps one day people like Janell Ross will get what’s their due…as perhaps that useless rag the Herald will, also.